EMERSON, Thomas E.

EMERSON, Thomas E. American, b. 1945. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology, Archaeology/Antiquities. Career: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, chief archaeologist, 198494; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, director of Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program and adjunct assistant professor of anthropology, 1994-. Upper Mississippi Valley Archaeological Research Foundation, director, 1973-76; Northeastern Archaeological Foundation, director, 1974-77; Council of South Dakota Archaeologists, member, 1978-80; Illinois Archaeological Survey, research member, 1973-75, member, 1979-, member of board of directors, 1993-94; Illinois Interagency Coal Mining Committee, member, 1986-94; Landmark Preservation Council of Illinois, regional representative, 1998-. In addition to ongoing archaeological field work in the Midwest, also participated in studies in Tromso, Norway. Publications: (with G. Milner and D. Jackson) The Florence Street Site, 1983; (with Jackson) The BBB Motor Site, 1984; The Dyroff and Levin Sites (published with The Go-Kart North Site by A. Fortier), 1984; (with Jackson) Emergent Mississippian and Early Mississippian Homesteads at the Marcus Site, 1987; Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power, 1997. EDITOR & CONTRIBUTOR: (with K. Farnsworth) Early Woodland Archeology, 1986; (with R.B. Lewis) Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest, 1991; (with J. Walthall) Calumet and Fleur-dy-Lys: French and Indian Interaction in the Midcontinent, 1992; (with T. Pauketat) Cahokia: Ideology and Domination in the Mississippian World, 1997. Contributor to books. Contributor to archaeology and anthropology journals. Address: 109 Davenport Hall, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A.